Start/Lamar, CO End/Lubbock, TX 567 miles Lunch in Dalhart (Toxic Hell and Pizza The Hut) SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-777 e NM and TX… [Read More]
April 14, 2016 Dust and Desolation in the Desert
A desert day trip turned sour when the Xterra died just east of Ballarat, in Panamint Valley. That story is here. There were some… [Read More]
March 31, 2016 Carrizo Dust Devils
Rook and Tom and I were minding our own business, wandering around the Carrizo Plain and looking for wildflowers to photograph, when we came… [Read More]
March 28, 2016 Whitewater Wind and Dust Storm
I had planned on leaving mom’s place in Palm Desert for home on the day prior, but a storm system coming into California… [Read More]
March 21, 2016 Owens Valley Lenticular Clouds
A large trough of low pressure was approaching California from the west on Monday, March 21. The strong flow at mid-levels from the west-southwest… [Read More]
March 21, 2016 Trona Lenticular Clouds
This is Part 2 of my lenticular cloud chase this day. Part One is here. From the Lone Pine area in Owens Valley,… [Read More]
February 17, 2016 Highway 190 Desert Dust Storm and Lenticulars
Another winter storm system was headed to California, so instead of seeing what it might do from home, I elected to head to the… [Read More]
February 17, 2016 Death Valley Dunes and Dust
In the companion entry for this date is a wide array of dust and wave-cloud photography from the Owens Valley and Panamint Valley. The… [Read More]
May 16, 2015 western KS Shelf Cloud
I would like to start the account for this chase day with plenty of superlatives, in capital letters, with lots of screaming and lots of… [Read More]
June 5, 2014 Haswell, CO supercell
Go south, young tour group. We headed from Alliance to eastern Colorado for an upslope chase play. After a healthy lunch in Sterling, we… [Read More]
May 22, 2014 Etter, TX Dusty Funnel
This was the final chase day for Tempest Tours’ Tour 3. It began in Stratton, CO, and the severe risk ran through the High… [Read More]
March 31, 2014 Mojave Lenticular Chase
It had been a few months since I had done a desert photo trip, I had this Monday off, and a Pacific storm was… [Read More]
May 23, 2013 Floydada, TX, dusty supercell
On May 21, we were on the road and in chase mode rather early, as storms were initiating by noon southwest of Wichita Falls. … [Read More]
April 8, 2013 Antelope Valley Dust Storm
posted on 10 Apr 2013 Antelope Valley Duststorm video on youtube A potent, cold, windy and dynamic upper-level storm system swooshed southeastward into the… [Read More]